You have the link for ?Dialects Of China? three times. Then when you actually click on the link you get a server error.

As for features that I would like to see made available, I would like to see pronunciations in more dialects (Wu, Taishanese , etc. ), more characters, more Sino-Korean pronunciations, more Sino-Japanese pronunciations, the addition of Sino-Vietnamese pronunciations, look up for words that are greater than one character in length.

Also, could you make a download available of a list of characters and their Minnan/Taiwanese pronunciations? By the way what is the source for the pronunciations that you have for Minnan/Taiwanese?

I spoke to a woman from Taiwan and for ?one?, ?two?, ?three?, ?four?, and ?five? she gave a pronunciation of ?jeeht?, ?nuhng?, ?sa?, ?seeh?, and ?ngoh? while you have ?chit8?, ?ji7?, ?saN1?, ?si3?, ?gou7?.

Sorry for my weird romanisation.

In the last incarnation of the CCDICT you had some place markers for characters that weren?t available, I think you had a $ (dollar sign) where a character wasn?t available. I don?t know if you have fixed them up because I don?t exactly remember where they were.

I think your website is a great resource for the study of Chinese characters.

Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.

P. S. Are you Hakka Chinese? If you are I think it's ironic that the Hakka forum has the least amount of postings.

I reinstalled the forum software and hope that the problems are solved. I upgraded the servers system software a week ago and apparently the forum software does not work bug-free with the new system (which I already knew, but the basic functions of the forum software worked fine on a similar test server).

Please let me know if errors continue to show up (since I do not see these errors when I post to the forum)

Sorry if this is off topic here, but Taiwanese has two pronunciations for a great number of characters, including numbers. For example, four can also be 'su'. The difference in pronunciation has to do with colloquial or literary readings. Literary readings are used when giving phone numbers.

If Thomas is going to add the Taiwanese, that would require differentiating a lot of those character readings, because some have as many as four or five, and I haven't checked, but it looks like what he gives might be mixing the two, so it doesn't look like a very reliable source. Like Japanese, you'd only know to use one reading by the context, or as in what word the character appears.

I noticed your message without a response, and I was curious about the term kwukyel as well. Doing a search on Google, I found an article by Thomas Chan at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qalam/message/155 where he cites The Korean Language by Ho-Min Sohn.

On pages 124-128, Sohn describes of Itwu scripts: Hyangchal, Itwu proper and Tho (also called Kwukyel or Hyentho). Here is a quick overview:

Hyangchal was the use of Chinese characters to transcribe vernacular poetry; mostly Korean words were used. Itwu proper was mainly for government documents and used many Chinese words with Korean grammatical elements indicated with Chinese Itwu characters.

Both of these two systems used Korean word order.

With Tho, however, the Chinese word order was maintained, and Itwu characters were used (often in simplified form) to show particles, suffixes and basic verbs.

I was wondering if it would be rood or not if I asked those people in the Chinese section to refrain from asking for all these translations. There's like a whole different section for that. I'd prefer that the content in the Chinese section be restricted to only discussion of the language, culture, etc....but asking for tatoo names????

Lately, I've been having to wait quite some time before the forum can be accessed. I've always been using my current ISP, but when it used to be instantaneous, it takes at least half a minute or more before anything comes up. Has the server been busy for the last week or so?

I still did not figure out what the problem is. For now I mirorred the forum and CCDICT pages onto another server (which apparently works). This server can be accessed via the chineselanguage.org domain. The chinalanguage.com domain is still pointing to the old main webserver and appears to be extremely slow.